how do you get the name of a dictionary?
Andy Terrel
andy.terrel at gmail.com
Fri Aug 18 14:45:05 EDT 2006
jojoba wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Does anyone know how to find the name of a python data type.
>
> Conside a dictionary:
>
> Banana = {}
>
> Then, how do i ask python for a string representing the name of the
> above dictionary (i.e. 'Banana')?
>
> thanks to anyone who has time to answer this nube question!
> jojoba
here is an easy hack, I don't know if there is an explicit function.
for i in dir():
if eval(i) == Banana:
print i
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